ABSTRACT
This chapter provides specific aspects of women's career progression in managerial grades, choices, opportunities and behaviour. This is a small number perhaps but even in the current environment of structural adjustment programmes, wage freezes, and labour retrenchment, employment in the public sector represents a relatively secure career for women, when considered against the limited opportunities available. The chapter examines the data concerning the careers of a number of women civil servants in supervisory and managerial roles in Ghana. It considers the processes that occur in the development of career choice and career behaviour among managerial women civil servants and the implications. The clusters of factors and the linkages between them contribute to an understanding of career and work behaviour in each individual woman, and such behaviour itself may feedback to the individual herself and the broader society. Expectations refer to the status, work, role, and rewards, including promotion that the interviewees expected to obtain.
